Cultural events, movies, shows, etc.
Lyrics to the original Frosty the Snowman song by Steve Rollins and Steve Nelson (1950), make no mention of any religious icons. But later, Frosty was picked up by Rankin Bass, who made all those cartoons that my generation grew up watching at holiday time. Rankin Bass added the Santa factor, and no amount of …
I won’t fill this post with spoilers other than to say that the “romantic” subplot doesn’t really make sense. I will say that it’s a gorgeous film that makes me wish I did the kind of work where I got to sit in a newsroom with a typewriter while George Clooney slouches on a beat …
I don’t really know how to write about music. There’s a bunch of terminology that I can pretend to understand, but anyone who does know what all that stuff means is just going to see right through me. I can’t read music – though I am very slowly learning to – and I’m a mere …
Yesterday afternoon we went to see Everything is Illuminated. If you haven’t read the book, you shouldn’t go see the movie. I think that if you read the book after you see the movie, you’ll be disappointed, in retrospect, by the movie, and that’s not really fair to the movie. What I’m saying is that …
Zip zip, the show’s up at North Hill Bakery. Stop in, eat a cookie, look at art. Your work is cut out for you.
If you missed it last time at Verite, you’ll have another chance to see Die Wunder der Natur right here on Cap Hill. Yummy treats to be had at the new location, too. Baked goods, weird art. They go together like, um, baked goods and weird art. The show opens September 1 at North Hill …